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“You're asking me to give insight into my personality or my philosophy of acting. I just don't think that deeply about it. What it means when I do this or that - I don't know. That's coming outside of myself. I prefer to live my life from inside of me, rather than come outside.” (Bull Deborah)
Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again. (Bull Deborah)
“At MGM, I always played the second feminine lead; I was never the star in films, I was the brassy, good-hearted showgirl. I never really had my big moment on the screen.” (Bull Deborah)
“Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.” (Bull Deborah)
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“Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.” (Bull Deborah)
“I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.” (Bull Deborah)
“I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.” (Bull Deborah)
“Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.” (Bull Deborah)
In the forties, fifties, and sixties they were good singers, good actors, and good dancers. That's the school that I come from. (Bull Deborah)
It has been refreshing that the last four roles that I've done have not been so blatantly sexual with me being put on some imaginary pedestal. (Bull Deborah)
Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me. (Bull Deborah)
Whenever I do acting for film there's always a certain amount of altering I have to do to my style because it's so different. (Bull Deborah)
“To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.” (Bull Deborah)
“I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.” (Bull Deborah)
“There's a fine line for me between character acting and leading man acting - the best is a combination of the two.” (Bull Deborah)
“Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.” (Bull Deborah)
“I got the best roles. I was a very serious actor. Besides me, no one (from the class) has done anything in the business.” (Bull Deborah)
“It's rare that you get to actually cast the person that you are using as the type of actor you want for the role. So we talked about who could play Papa Elf, and we started saying someone like Bob Newhart would be perfect. When you actually get that person, it's truly a special thing.” (Bull Deborah)
I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to do with the raising my parents gave me and my sister - Veronica Cartwright, who's an actress in her own right. (Bull Deborah)
“Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.” (Bull Deborah)
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul. (Bull Deborah)
I was being offered scripts that were unacceptable to me. I was not a good enough actress to be something I wasn't, or to do things I wouldn't do otherwise. (Bull Deborah)
I try to get my scripts a week earlier and work three times harder. But I make it. Other actors flub their lines too. (Bull Deborah)
“Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.” (Bull Deborah)
“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.” (Bull Deborah)
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